Google to Invest $15 Billion in Malaysia Data Centers and AI Over Two Years

Google announced plans Wednesday to invest $15 billion in Malaysia during 2027 and 2028, expanding data centers and cloud infrastructure while funding power, water and workforce programs.

The company unveiled the plan with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in attendance. It includes new data center campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, building on Google's first Malaysian campus at Elmina Business Park, which is now operating.

Google projects that construction of the new campuses will support more than 37,000 local jobs a year during 2027 and 2028, including about 6,000 construction jobs. Once the facilities are operating, it expects them to support more than 9,000 local jobs annually. Those figures are company projections, not jobs already created.

The company also plans programs aimed at training about 800,000 Malaysians between 2027 and 2031. They will focus on educators and young people, small business owners, civil servants and people seeking technical work in data center operations.

Alongside the computing investment, Google says its plan will add more than one gigawatt of clean energy capacity to Malaysia's national grid. Water projects include river basin work and school-based storage and rainwater systems.

The expansion will support a planned Google Cloud region in Malaysia and computing demand across the country and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The investment adds to Google's earlier infrastructure commitment announced in 2024.